Buvaisar Saitiev
Russian wrestler, politician (1975-2025) · Russia · On the map · Athletes · Died at 49
Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev was a Russian wrestler and politician. His total of nine world-level gold medals in freestyle wrestling is second highest, behind Aleksandr Medved's 10.
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Saitiev is widely considered to be the greatest freestyle wrestler of all time; in 2007, he and Greco-Roman practitioner Aleksandr Karelin were voted the best wrestlers in the history of the sport by FILA.
